Joseph Howe: The Briton becomes Canadian, 1848-1873McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1984 - 448 pagina's Professor Beck shows how, in Churchillian fashion, the final resolution was preceded by a series of setbacks and disappointments in Howe's public life. These were the result of a bold colonization scheme encompassing an inter-colonial railway between Halifax and Quebec; a quixotic mission of recruitment in the United States for the British armies in the Crimea; the embattled leasdership of an unstable provincial administration in the early 1860s; and the hard-fought campaign to prevent passage of the British North America Act. Disillusioned by the indifference of British politician to his long-standing advocacy of a refurbished British Empire in whose government colonial leaders could share, Howe turned his energies to making the new Canadian federation work. A whole-hearted supporter of Confederation in his later years, Howe displayed an irrepressible vitality that Professor Beck sees as the trademark of the man. |
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Inhoudsopgave
A Normal School for the Colonies | 3 |
Above the Muddy Pool of Politics | 26 |
The Bantling Revived | 51 |
Railway Builder and Army Recruiter | 72 |
Seeds of RacialReligious Conflict | 94 |
Sectarian Politics Prevails | 115 |
Ambition | 138 |
A Sabbath of Rest | 167 |
This Crazy Confederacy | 197 |
Accepting the Situation | 219 |
Pacifying the Antis | 251 |
The Last Journey | 281 |
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